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Nomination of White Student Unions for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article White Student Unions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Student Unions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks.

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Hi thanks for your notice. Apologies for not using the proper way to do this. Anyhow, I am now the President of the Complexity Science Society https://cssociety.org/home and published many papers and books on the subjects. How to proceed then? Guido — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcalda (talk • contribs) 09:55, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

To be honest I think you have to wait for other editors to decide that is noteworthy. My name is there but I didn't add it and wouldn't. I put a couple of links on your article that allow you to make the request of a neutral editor. -----Snowded ^TALK 09:58, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Correcting the error in Mary Midgley's birth date introduced on 11 Oct

Hi Snowed Thank you for your kind offer of help. I would prefer not to be dealing with this kind of thing when we have funerals, wills, memorial services etc. to deal with.

My Mum really liked HTLGI, and I did too, but she hasn't really been up to traveling for a while - she was still walking most days, but increasingly the cocktail party problem made it difficult for her to engage with more than a few people at a time.

Death is never easy, but she was a proper philosopher - a stoic, so far as one can be ready for death she was.

and .. the new book is out - "What is Philosophy for ? "" ...

and .. we celebrated her 99th birthday party, a couple of weeks ago.

and .. the group of 4 women together at Oxford in the War is 'a thing', and is inspiring a new generation of women at Durham & Liverpool. So her legacy will continue.

and .. she was 99..

I have to go now, but I would welcome help to keep it in order.

Thank you

Tom (ctmidgley) Ctmidgley (talk) 20:40, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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Have the squabbles on that article died down now, or do you think it might still benefit from some intervention?  DDStretch  (talk) 15:25, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Well they hit a stalemate. The issue relates to if the F1 interest group can override the convention of self-identification. It seems a characteristic of such groups that they seek conformity and structure (knowing some of the cognitive science which goes with this I can see why) so are not open to compromise. Its festered for a bit as far as I can see. Its worth a look as the issue is likely to come up in other contexts. -----Snowded ^TALK 09:18, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Terrorism in Pakistan

I don't particularly care for the outcome of this dispute, but your recent removal is somewhat aggressive. Religion, or religious zealotry, undeniably plays a role in terrorism within Pakistan, whether it is the cause of terrorism or whether terroristic acts target certain religious adherents. A section on religious opinions in Pakistan would thus be relevant. A small section, as introduced by Karumari, may be inherently unbalanced but since Wikipedia is a work in progress, I don't see that as necessarily problematic since it will be expanded later. Even now-lengthy articles have been started with as little as one sentence. Buddytula (talk) 19:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

We have an editor who is dropping that text into multiple articles and is ignoring all advise - there are limits to tolerance here -----Snowded ^TALK 19:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Granted. This editor's additions are problematic for numerous reasons. I certainly hope the editor learns to work collaboratively, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Buddytula (talk) 19:17, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Lets see :-) -----Snowded ^TALK 19:18, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Editing while logged out

See WP:LOUT and WP:LOGOUT. 31.52.166.58 (talk) 20:44, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

As pertaining to me, not you, I might add  :) 31.52.166.58 (talk) 20:44, 15 November 2018 (UTC)